Mick O'Connor's

reel

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on February 4th 2005 by patrick cavanagh.

This tune has been added to 19 tunebooks.

Also known as Happy To Meet, Sorry To Part, Mick O' Connor's.

Recordings of a tune by this name:

• A Sound Skin by Junior Davey And Friends
• Avakatoo by Dirty Linen
• Ceol Tire by Various Artists
• Duchas Ceoil “Dance Of The Honeybee” by The Lennon Family
• Far Off Fields by Taxi Mauve
• Happy To Meet Sorry To Part by Various Artists
• Happy To Meet Sorry To Part by Horslips
• Lively Steps by Jerry Holland
• Midsummer's Night by Dervish
• Out In The Night by Fisherstreet
• Pride Of The West by John Wynne And John McEvoy
• Redwood by Lunasa
• Sliabh Notes by Sliabh Notes
• The Blue CD by Irish Session Tunes
• The Connachtman's Rambles by Martin O'Connor
• The Michael Sexton Ceili Band by The Michael Sexton Ceili Band
• The Next Turn by Trouble In The Kitchen
• The Open Door by Sean Nua
• Unleashed by The Border Collies
• When Juniper Sleeps by Seamus Egan

X: 1
T: Mick O'Connor's
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Dmaj
|:A,B,DE FDED|B,EED EDB,D|A,B,DE FABc|dBAG FDDD|
A,B,DE FDED|B,EED EDB,E|A,B,DE FABc|dBAG FDDD:|
|:d2fd adfd|edBd edBA|defa defa|e2de fddc|
d2fd adfd|edBd edBA|faab afdf|1 gefd e4:|2 e2de fdd2||

Mick O'Connor's

I learned this from the Fisherstreet album recently (listed as Happy To Meet, Sorry To Part), though I have heard it in sessions from time to time. There's something uplifting about it...
Also, on banjo and fiddle ( and presumably box as well) you can play the A part in the upper octave or the B part in the lower octave to keep yourself (if no one else) amused.

# Posted on February 4th 2005 by patrick cavanagh

Mick O'Connor's

This tune somewhat reminds me of a nameless tune in this database: http://thesession.org/tunes/display.php/1498 Two tunes share a very similar first part though in different keys.I think "Happy to Meet, Sorry to Part" is the title given to a traditional jig, and probably not the correct title for this one. It's probably Lunasa that popularised it in the sessions in U.S.

# Posted on February 5th 2005 by slainte

Update

"slainte" - take a look again at the link, I've finally identified that particular tune - not the same as this one.

# Posted on February 5th 2005 by Kenny

Yeah, two tunes are different, of course.

# Posted on February 5th 2005 by slainte

Need I mention, it was composed by legendary London banjo player, Mick O'Connor, who plays (almost) every monday at the Duke of York in Hanwell.

# Posted on February 6th 2005 by granama

Mick O'Connor's

So here's the way Sean Smyth plays it on Lunasa's Redwood cd. Besides being played as a slow reel, the notes are substantially different from the setting posted by Patrick above. Sean's also tuned up a half step to Eb, but I've transcribed it in the standard D fingering. If you want to play along to the cd, you'll have to tune up a half step.

What really makes the Lunasa setting work is Donogh and Trevor's backing--I like the descending minor bass line in the B part, which they do only one out of each four times through the part, against the |edBd edBA| phrase.

X: 1
T: Mick O'Connor's
C: Mick O'Connor
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
D: Redwood, Lunasa
Z: Will Harmon
K: D
|A,B,DA, FD{G}ED|B,E F/E/D EFDB,|A,B,DE FABc|dBAF EFDB,|
|G,A,2 G FD{G}ED|B,E F/E/D EFDB,|A,B,DE FABc|dBAF EFDB,|
|G,A,2 G FD{G}ED|B,E{G}ED EFDB,|A,B,DE FABc|dBAF EFDB,|
|G,A,2 G FD{G}ED|B,E F/E/D EFDB,|A,B,DE FABc|dBAF EFDA||
|d2 fa f{a}fa|edBd edBA|defa defa|eAde fddc|
|{c}d2 fa f{a}fa|edBd e/e/dBA|d3 a {b}afaf|eAde fddc|
|{c}d2 fa f{a}fa|edBd edBA|defa defa|eAde fddc|
|{c}d2 fa f{a}fa|edBd edBA|~d3 a {b}afaf|eAde fdd2 ||

# Posted on February 6th 2005 by Will CPT

Thanks Will.

# Posted on June 29th 2005 by Unseen122

You're welcome, Avery. I can listen to that track over and over all day.

# Posted on June 29th 2005 by Will CPT